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CRACKERS OPEN
3-GBE SERIES
IN BIRMINGHAM
Birmingham. Aug is.— The
Crackers open a three-game
series with the Barons here
this afternoon. The Atlanta team
pulled in here from Mobile, where
they dropped the Anal same of the
series with the Gulls to the tune of
10 to 8.
The home team intends to in
crease Its lead at the expense of
the Gate City boys, but the lowly
tallenders may cause ’em more
trouble than they expect.
The Crackers have finished the
first week of the road trip. They
have two more weeks on foreign
pastures before returning home As
soon as they finish their visit in
this burg they travel to Montgom
ery for a three-game series. Chat
tanooga and Nashville will be the
stopping placps of the Crackers
next week.
On Labor day Alperman will take
his team home when a double- >
header is scheduled with the Mem
phis Turtles. Nashville and Chat
tanooga follow in succession at
Poncey park, winding up the season
in Atlanta.
The Crackers close the season
away from home, playing the last
three days of the schedule in Mem -
phis. While there doesn't seem to
be any chance of them finishing
better than last, the Crackers will
fight their hardest to get inn, sev
enth place.
Here’s How Crackers
Are Hitting the Ball
Right Up to Date
These averages include all games
played by the Crackers to date
Players. g. ab. r, h. av.
Harbison, e»- . 55 188 22 53 282
Alperman. 2b.110 415 47 114 275
Bailey. If . .110 353 70 104 .272
Agler. th. ... 45 148 26 39 .264
Becker, p . . 12 27 2 7 259
Graham, c .. 51 156 17 40 .256
Callahan, cf 68 265 26 64 241
• McElveen. 3h 114 414 46 93 .225
Reynolds, c. . 10 32 4 6 .188
Johnson, p. 4 6 o 1 167
Bredv, p . . 19 58 2 9 .155
Sitton, p . . 23 55 10 8 145
Wolfe, utility 6 16 0 1 163
L/yons. rs . . IS 52 3 3 .038
Waldorf, p 6 17 o o .000
JOE JEANNETTE FIGHTS
JEFF MADDEN TONIGHT
NEW YORK, Aug 19 Joe Jean
nette. th» colored hea\ vweight ivho has
been signed up to meet Champion .Tack
Johnson in a ten-round bout at Madi
son Square Garden on September 25
will be in action here tonight when h>
will box Jeff Madden, of Boston, at th'
Garden This will be Jeannettes Him
appearance here th!« year, and then
1s considerable Interest In th. b • it. as
it will give a line on the asplrint < con
dition Luther McCarthy, the Spring
field (Mo.) white hope, will me. t ti-n ,
Pelker. of Chicopee, Mass . j r
round bout
tin Wednesday night at St X . 1
rink, Iseach Cross, the Boweri demist
will meet Tommy O’Keef. a Phi I
phia lightweight.
DAVIS & FREEMAN CUP
NEXT PRIZE AT EAST LAKE
The Davis it Freeman golf tn.pl.' i
will be the next one to be ontested for ;
by the golfers of the Atlanta Atl ’«-t i<
club This cup is a three-y<-ar afi'ai
and has been contested f"i evei «lm <■
the East Lake course was opened
F. G Byrd, former Southern and . mt.
Champion, has won the cup twl<. ami
W R Tlchenor on< <
The qualifying round of this ton na
ment will be played Saturda trnri
-24 Th* first and oonnil rout s ■ '
match plav must be played hi A .
S<>. the Semi-flla bi Xugost 31 an'
line Auah> by (September L *
Dame Fortune Favors Murphy,
But Gives Ward Cold Shoulder
Bv. W. J. Mcßeth.
, • *
SO-CALLED "luck'’ of the game
Is doubtless responsible for
the superstitions of the gen
eral run of players. Few, indeed,
of all the great army connected
with the national pastime are those
who reason after the fashion of the
unemotional Connie Mack.
"There is no such thing as luck.”
says Connie, "or If there Is, it cer
tainly equalizes during a cam
paign. No one team is favored by ■
luck, I mean. You will win Just as
many games through ‘breaks' as
you lose and no more during a long
schedule. The championship team
sometimes looks luckier than its
rivals That Is because its playets
make their luck good just as a dis
couraged at raj alway makes its
luck bad.”
Connie Mack Is n pretty wise
general and in all probability
knows exactly what he is talking
about Anyhow, he can get away
with it so far as we are concerned.
There may be no such fortune as
good luck from the playing and
managerial ends of the nation’s
summer sport Yet, how about luck
in baseball promotion?
The fingers of the two hands
wouldn't be enough to tell the lucky
magnates of the National and
American leagues I’nfortunately,
there Is always the exception that
proves the rule We will consider
for a moment one of the "tough
luck” disciples of diamond dives,
i John Montgomery Ward
Mr. Ward has but recently sev
ered his connection with the Bos
ton National league club. He was
president of the luckless National
league tatl-e.nders for less than one
year. Ward sold bis holdings to
Jim Gaffney, majority stockholder,
whom Ward had first Interested in
the Hub proposition last December
He Is through with baseball for
good If Ward had had absolute
control of the Hubbites it is doubt
ful 1f anything could have driven
him to cover. He would have hung
on until he built up a better club
and that would have meant the
greatest Imaginable financial suc
cess.
Not another man in the United
States merits more from baseball
than John M Ward, retired from
the Boston club. Here is a man
who has been a great credit to the
game One of the most formidable
pitchers and Infielders of the old
days, he served his apprenticeship
also as manager. Yet. he retired
voluntarily at the height of his
prime to study law He became a
very fine lawyer and built up a
wonderful practice in New York,
where lawyers are to find the
toughest sledding in the whole
country John M. Ward has worked
hard at his practice. He deserved
a rest and some of the good things
of baseball. That he is again on
the outside. looking In. simply
proves beyond question that there
is luck and all kinds of it in base
ball promotion.
Takes CharleX W Murphy, of
the Cubs. In direct opposition to
Watd. Murphy is a millionaire to
day He owns several theate's in
Chicago as well as rich real estate
property. AU this has been ac
cummaied within the past seven
years without the outlay of a pen
ny Murphy was just luekv enough
to get the tip that the Chicago
club was for sale 11. got the baek-
FORMER CRACKER PLAYER
IS SECURED BY BROOKLYN
BROOKLYN, N Y Aug 19 The
' Brook \n o Mocking up again or.
South* rr ■ in, vx Southern
h awu* It < - gKvhh. Enon Klrk
putrirk, former Grack.t. .<n<! Pit. h< t
Kent, forinei j tis •:. minghan) Sotm » s
.Hid Jmile' ! "in Na-hxE • and Ain
i -on and Sling - "t M««nti4 ,|| <i y
Kirk Patrick wi.. icport un Augubi .9
fHE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MONDAY. AUGUST 19. 1912.
Ing from Charles P. Taft and
bought for $105,000 a club that at
that time whs north fully half a
million Murphy tumbled right
into a pennant ills first year. Frank
Chance has made history with the
club Sellee built up. Yet. Murphy
was the lucky fellow to fall into
such a capable manager for such a
capable club. Murphy doesn’t be
gin to have the business intelli
gence or baseball acumen of John
M. Ward.
Luck made Murphy a howling
success: John M. Ward -to put it
as inildi.i as possible -a disappoint
ment.
Football Season Closing in Fast; Dixie Teams Will Be Out for Practice Soon
VANDUNB (iEOHfiIA TEAMS WILL BE LOUD NOISE
By Percy 11. Whiting.
J'I'ST two weeks from today va
rious broad-shouldered young
gentlemen will assemble at cer
tain of our institutions of learning,
battered garments of blood, and
mud-stained moleskin will be dealt
out and the football practice for the
1 »42 .season will begin.
Os course September 2, the same
being Labor Day, is not the formal
reporting day for football players.
But in the South, football activity
usually gets its start the fust week
In September. This year the open
ing day of that week will tind the
University of Georgia football play
ers doing light work and the Tech.
Vanderbilt, Auburn, Mercer Clem
son and Alabama candidates as
sembling or making plans for the
first formal gathering of the can
didates.
• ♦ ♦
The greatest interest of the sea
son in the South will center around
the Vanderbilt and Georgia teams.
<if all the 'elevens In the South,
these two have the brightest pros
pects and the most ambitious
schedules.
The Vanderbilt team has bit off
a tremendous schedule. After an
easy opener on September 28 and
another cinch on October 12, the
Commodores take on Hose i’oly
ti chntc for the third game. October
19. Now. Rose is some college, and
has always had a team that gave
Vanderbilt trouble. The following
Saturday the Commodores buck
Alex Cunningham's University of
Georgia eleven, the team which,
next to Vanderbilt, ought to rank
the strongest in the South. The
next game is with Mississippi
always a Tartar and always set to
beat Vanderbilt. Then come a cou
ple of Lulu games I'nivetsitj of
Virginia at Nashville and Hatnard
at Cambridge. The Virginia game
offers a big problem Vanderbilt
has long been rated the strongest
team in the Southern Intercollegi
ate Athletic association. But Vir
ginia is not in this organization
and lias a lot more latitude than *
i lie Commodores in recruting play
ers.
<if course, the Harvard gam. is
counted a sure defeat for the Com
modores- but then you never .an
tell. The Cmnmodort < handed
Annapolis ami Yale a surprise
apiece and they don't issue any
guarantee that Harvard will not be
treated likewise.
Then come on the Vandy sched
ule Central of Kentucky likely to
be not very troublesome; Auburn,
always a contender, and Sewanee,
the anti climax game of tlu sea
son.
With Ray Morrison. Big Un"
l‘i eeland and "Frog" Metzger gone.
I'm McGugin w ill have an awful
time building up a strong team, but
1" has .1 good captain in Lewie
Hare ; ano ,i bunch ul good uu
lu ml.
f 1
I'he Big Race
Here's how the "Big Five” of the
American league are hitting the ball,
the averages including yesterday’s
games:
PLAYER— A.B. H. P.C.
COBB 419 173 .413
SPEAKER 440 174 .395
JACKSON ... 423 159 .376
COLLINS 397 136 .343
LAJOIE 286 90 .315
T-/ Cobb fell off over seven points
last week. Saturday was a bad day for
his average, as he failed to connect once
in four attempts. Speaker is now with
in eighteen points of the "Georgia
Peach.” The most remarkable hitting
during the past two weeks has been
done by Collins. Just about fifteen days
ago his clouting average was a little
over .300. Today he is hitting .343.
No games were played in the Amer
ican league yesterday as the Western
clubs were all in the East.
EORGIA, of course, has no such
1 schedule as Vanderbilt, hut it
has considerable schedule for all
that, and the fact that the Athens
team plays Tech and Vanderbilt in
Atlanta will make its doings of ex
ceptional interest. Coach Cunning-
BASEBALL]
Diamond News and Gossip
I he Pelicans w ill carry over some good
material for next season Hendryx
Clancy, Ilaigh, Cullop. Swindell and Mills’
' laney in particular looks good. lie is
hitting .429 for the last 19 games.
The gambling in New Orleans has be
come open and flagrant, but the baseball
association has promised to go after it
strong and to wipe it out. For all the
season they have tolerated a "Gamblers'
Row." where anybody could get odds on
anything.
• • •
Connie Mack blames the automobile
manta tor the poor showing of his team.
He says that the speed bug put by Cy
Morgan out of major league ball and has
rendered Bender almost useless.
Bill \ iebahn is pitching pretty fair ball
for Jersey City.
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Ban Johnson may sign empire Groe
sehow. He has but one arm. The other
was "hit off" by a band saw.
• • •
Ihe Phillies have bought a pitcher
named Horne, but he’s park shv. He has
been sighted in New York. Pittsburg and
Philadelphia, but has never yet shown
up at the ball park.
• ♦ •
Phey’re still talking of the Davis-Sto
vall trade. To outsiders it isn't apparent
that cither man has developed a team
that is fighting very hard for a pennant.
* 4'- *
George Paskert was quite seriously in
jured when hit in the face by a batted
Ball the other day. He was left at home
when the Phillies started west.
♦ * •
Pitcher Leonard Cole has been rein
stat e<l by the Pirates and has gone to
work
♦ • ♦
Mobile has finally patched up the salarv
difference between Catcher Omar Vance
and the Koanoke club and Vance has re
ported.
• • ♦
The South Central and the Texas-
Oklahoma league are talking of consoli
dating tor their backers are anyway).
\nd this with the Sherman anti-trust
law still in operation*
♦ • •
T\ Cobb hasn't scored from first re
> ent!\ on a single Hut he keeps right on
trying and will land after a bit.
t’be reason Ty Cobh didn't play In a
rec. nt New York-Detroit game was that
hr was late in reporting and was not in
uniform when the battle began
• • •
liair.\ Wolverton caught his suspension
b\ Ban Johnson for a run-in with Em
pire Egan. Chase took over the team
I when hr was relieve*!
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Eddie Hohnhorst has dislocate*! his
shoulder again and is not with the Toledo
team at present
In .i rec< m game at Hurlhurt. Ind . be‘-
’lf Hurlburt ami Boone Grove
teams Rax M< Ginlex a ten-vear-old lad
" -ni .ix <.n the forehead ami killed bx
a ball lut bx his father, Robert McGinl* x
• • •
I o,i. < riss ui pinch -bit fame, has been
.Ir.’Pp.d by the l.ouisville club ami taken
| on by Houston. Texas
Rocr’ Bresnahan ’s sore is bruise It
iliat lie arranged a trade by wh . lt
I 'lnagms .i.i Ellis w . re to go to th,. Red
| foi Mil. hell ami Mel'..paid \nd then
ill Util lull iv stand fur it.
Going! Going!! Gone!!! All Our
White Hopes Now White Jokes
By’W. W. Naughton.
Z~\NE by one they wander
I I from us,” is the refrain of
an old song that treats of
the desertion of the old homestead
by successive members of the fam
ily. With a few simple changes
th4 ditty would adapt itself to the
w hite hope situation.
First, Carl Morris, and now Lu
ther McCarthy, whom Billy McCar
ney, with flashing eyes and swell
ing breast, declared would one day
grow so famous that his name
would become a household word.
The New Yoyk critics let Luther
down easy. When Jim Stewart out-
ham has a lot of fine men this year,
with one real STAR—Boh McWhor
ter.
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t t ERE in Atlanta it is about the
“ same old tale—-Tech hasn't
much material or much hope, but
with Coadh Heisman in charge
there is sure to be a well-trained
team which will make a creditable
showing. That’s all Atlanta has any
right to hope for. Technical
schools don't turn out great teams.
They never have—and they never
will until some methqd is discov
ered by which football candidates
can do laboratory and shop work in
their sleep.
The Tech team will play much its
usual schedule, with Sewanee, Au
burn and Clemson as the feature
games, and with the big climax, the
Georgia contest, coming as usual
in mid-season instead of at the end.
where it should be.
The new rules aren't going to
make things any easier for Tech
this year. Last year they rather
favored the Yellowjackets. They
made It possible for a team of
light, fast men who knew football
to cope with most anything. The
rules committee, by performing a
back flip and allowing four downs
instead of three, have automatically
brought the big husky back into his
old, proud position in football. This
year quick thinking and quick run
ning will give place to weight and
brue strength. This will hurt Tech,
for they don't seem to send big men
to the Georgia School of Technol
ogy these days.
• « •
Stroud, of the Mercer
team, will be back in Macon
early in September. He has been
summering in Exter, Cal., but will
leave there in a couple of weeks.
The candidates will assemble about
mid-September, and will buckle
right down to work, for they have
a game September 28.
Mercer has a pretty hard and a
peculiarly badly balanced schedule.
After opening with a prep school
game—a thing that no self-respect
ing college team is expected to do
these days the Baptists take on
the tough Auburn team on Octo
ber 5. Then comes an easy game,
with Howard. Then the Tech team
invades Macon for a game with
Stroud's men. This is set for Oc
tober 19 Then comes an easy game
with Columbia college (of Floridai.
a doubtful contest with Tennes
see, a hard game with Clemson and
the usual anti-climax with Univer
sity of Florida,
St mud will return most of last
year’s men and expects for once to
have a team at Mercer that will
rank right with the best 1n the
South bailing only Vanderbilt.
Mercer has long been in the dol
drums. athletically speaking, but
gradually it Is working its way out,
am! this \<ar it o. ght to
loudest noUe
•
fought the big novice at every stage
of a ten-round bout they said Mc-
Carthy held out promise of im
provement.
Avaunt and avast with such in
sincere twaddle! The white hope
who has failed under trial, but who
is "going to do better, when he has
a fight or two under his belt,” is
in a class with a jaded champion
who is "going, to the mountains to
recuperate.” He is a mighty un
safe proposition.
It goes to show that after all
fighting Is a trade. The fighter
whp is born, and not made, is a
scarce specimen of humanity.
In the light of what is happen
ing, the sayings of Philadelphia
Jack O'Brien and Jack Johnson
seem epigrammatic.
"I can lick any man who has
not had two years experience in
I the professional ring.” remarked
Philadelphia John prior to his San
Francisco go with Al Kaufman.
"Palzer is not ripe yet,” said
• 'hampion Johnson, when asked at
Las Vegas whether he regarded
Palzer in the light of a possible op
ponent. There Was that in the tone
which suggested that Johnson con
sidered Palzer an easy mark, but
felt that the big lowan tvould have
to be coddled along a bit- further
to stimulate public interest and in
crease the prospects of a large at
tendance.
The trouble with white hopes is
that they are exploited main*y on
their dimensions, and before they
have accomplished anything to
speak of. Size and strength and the
power to smite are merely funda
mental qualities for a cub heavy
weight. They are next to useless
until he has acquired a ring edu
cation. which, during almost any’
generation of pugilists, is a hard
thing to acquire.
The woods are full of men who,
while they lack real championship
requirements, are plenty good
enough to shatter the dreams of
the hopes. A dozen years afto Joe
t'hoynski. Kid McCoy and a few
others were the watch dogs and
trial horses of the heavyweight di
vision. Today’ we have Jim Flynn
and Jim Stewart.
They are hard fellows to get by.
A beating by one of them has a
double effect inasmuch as it sets a
novice back and at the same time
discourages him. This is made ap
parent in the ease of Carl Morris.
Before he tackled Jim Flynn there
was no such word as fail in the
bright lexicon of the stalwart
Oklahoman. Since then he has
been a mark for every man he
boxed.
ARTHUR MADDOX TO HELP
COACH GEORGIA ELEVEN
ATHENS. GA., Aug. 19 —Although it
has not been officially announced, the
news has leaked out here that Arthui
Maddox, for four years a member of
the University of Georgia football team,
has been engaged as assistant coach
for the coming year.
This news will be heard with much
pleasure by the students ami alumni of
the institution, as the big tackle was
o.ne of the most popular men that evet
played at Georgia, and during his
course at the institution was most ac
tive in all phases of college life.
Due to the large number of men that
turn out for football and the amount of
work needed to whip the new material
into line, an assistant coach is an abso
lute necessity, and in Maddox leal
supporters of athletics feel that the
light man has been seemed for the
place.
UMPIRE OWENS NEARLY
LOSES HIS EYESIGHT
CHICAGO. Aug 19.- National Lcagut
Umpire Clarence Owens nenr'y lost an
eye Saturday night in a shooting gal
leu Whlb knot king ox < i tin littfi
birds th< rifle he, am. . Ingsed ami om
lattiidg, burst in Hie I h ~f tlu
g, un -
BILL GILBERT
HERO OF ROME
MOTORR/ICES
ROME, GA., Aug. 19.—8i1l Gil
bert, of Atlanta, riding an
Excelsior twin, lowered the
track motorcycle record here by
two seconds. Also Gilbert made a
clean sweep of the events in which
he started. He captured two three
mile match races and made a grand
showing in another three-mile
event. He was clocked in one of
the miles in 35 seconds. The for
mer record was 37 flat.
Gilbert was easily the hero of
the biggest motorcycle meet ever
held here. His daring spurts around
the turns and in the stretches were
sensational, and at the end of each
event he was cheered to the echo.
The summaries:
Three-Mile Match Race —H. M.
Gilbert, Atlanta, Excelsior twin,
first; John Veal, Rome, Ga., Mer
kel twin, second: Ollie Roberts, At
lanta, Excelsior twin, third.
Three-Mile Match Race—V. Moss,
Thor 5, first; Howard Lewis,
Excelsior twin, second; Jack Bry
ant, Merkel twin, third.
Two-Mile Race—O. Roberts. At
lanta, Excelsior twin, first; How
ard Lewis, Rome, Excelsior twin,
second; Jack Bryant, Rome, Mer
kel twin, third.
Three-Mile Race —H. M. Gilbert,
Atlanta. Flanders 4, and V. Moss,
Rome. Thor 5(15 seconds handicap
for Flanders 4), Thor won bv 25
feet.
Three-Mile Final Race—H. M.
Gilbert, Atlanta, Excelsior twin,
first; Ollie Roberts, Atlanta, Ex
celsior twin, second; John Veal,
Rome, Merkel twin, third.
Brady, Becker, Bailey
And Waldorf Are Left
With Atlanta Team
Four players belonging to big league
clubs, but placed in Atlanta under op
tional agreement, will not be recalled
tomorrow when the final gathering in
of farmed players is pulled off by the
ring masters of the big show.
The four players now owned by At
lanta because of the refusal of big
league teams to exercise their option
to repurchase are Buck Recker. King
Brady, Harry Bailey and Rudolph Wal
dorf. t
Becker is the only one who was’ not
left under the terms of the original
contract. Griffith wired that if the At
lanta club would come through with a
little more money it could have Becker.
The yo.ung left-hander has looked so
good this year that President Qaliaway
at once wired an acceptance of the
offer.
Brady. Bailey and Waldorf were left
in Atlanta on the strength of the re
fusal of the major league clubs to
waive. The fact that Bailey wks not
recalled was a big surprise. That chap
has batted well for the Crackers this
year.
It Hie i 'tibs leave Agler in Atlanta
i ,l; ' ®m ili s ptob|em of building a team
for next year Is vastly simplified,
HAL CHASE'S DIVORCE
SUIT AGAIN REOPENED
NEW YORK, Aug 19.—The troubles
of Hal Chase, the baseball player, and
his wife, Nellie H Chase, a e not over,
as it iias annoum i d they were some
Meeks ago. When a motion for alimony
and eotfn-el fees made by Mrs. Chase
was withdrawn, f Justice Du-
gro signed an order allowing the at
torneys of plaintiff to file a complaint
in the ease in the < ounti . lerk's office
under a date of a week ago
The reason given by the attorneys
tot not tiling the complaint at the
proper time u HS that chase wished to
ai.in! the publietti which iioubl attach
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